But one should keep these things in perspective: For all the hullabaloo about the Dreamliner, and the jumps in the stock’s price, Boeing has only lost about 1% in the past month. What gets one’s attention is how the stock has performed in getting there:

(For give the lack of dates under the x-axis; I blame gremlins in the machines.)

It’s clear from the chart that the stock is moving on news, but the movement isn’t all down, and the overall picture is actually more boring than the headlines make it seem.

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JANUARY 11, 2013 1:53 P.M.

Gilbert W. Chapman wrote:

I'd be more worried about the political fallout from these minor malfunctions than the economic ones.

Given that Obama & Company detests Boeing for the "South Carolina Incident", I suspect the FAA will make a far bigger deal about this than it deserves.

JANUARY 11, 2013 5:51 P.M.

David McDonald wrote:

@ Gilbert W. Chapman

I'd hardly call a "severe fire" a minor malfunction, particularly one that - in near perfect conditions at a major airport with a large fire firefighting division - still took some 40 minutes to extinguish.

If the same lithium ion batteries which failed on the ground on this 3-week old plane were to malfunction in flight, both Boeing and the FAA have admitted that thermal runaway can occur and there is currently no known suppressant or extinguisher system that can put out such a fire.

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